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From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.com>
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	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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>> I still like to point people at plan 9 ports as an example of a
>> complex system that gets by without this *conf* nonsense.
>
> It falls over just enough to be attacked. =C2=A0Otherwise, p9p source wou=
ld
> have been ported back to Plan 9 in its entirety. =C2=A0It's a shame,
> really, and with some work it could be fixed, but some of that work is
> design work.

There is already a tool to port plan9port code back to Plan 9.
See cp(1).

Russ